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For any recent visitors, a warning: I get bored of themes very quickly. I change them quite a bit. Every theme I’ve ever chosen I’ve disliked something about. That is, except this one: Hemingway. I don’t know why I like it, but I love everything about it. Unfortunately, my readership usually thinks otherwise, as I notice a sharp decline in traffic when I use it. People like a long series of posts on the front page that stretch endlessly, making the scrollbar only a few pixels tall. I don’t understand why, but they do. (I’ve noticed that I get more repeat visitors the more posts I cram onto the front page).

This theme gives the front page maximum efficiency– at least in my mind. Excerpts from the two most recent posts, a list of the 5-7 most recent posts after that, pages, categories, an easy search box, monthly archives, and the blogroll. And for that, I like it. It just feels better to me– in the same way the terminal feels better to me that an endless, complicated GUI. Simple, uncluttered, functional. That’s how I like it.

I’m going to try this out– and I’m going to try to make it worth your while. Every single time I look at this page, I want it to be in Hemingway, and I’ve finally decided to just go for it and see if I can keep traffic up. For those of you that hate clicking to see the most recent posts, I’d recommend RSS. I publish a full feed.

That is all.